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In Our Collection, we’ve carefully curated and constructed everything you need to ‘Parent Technology’ all in one place. Tap into the Braintrust for the Whys, Whats and How-Tos, with our Gold Star Articles, Best Practices, Guides.

Our Family Agreement and TimeWise Calculator are tools designed to help you engage your kids in the conversation, and our Tech Tips offer video instructions for easy implementation.

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What’s the Right Amount of Time to Spend on Social Media?

Screen Time: The Major Concerns

Apple’s Parental Controls: The Overview

Screen Time at a High Level

Screen Time at a High Level Dear Friends, If there’s one reverberant theme to parenting in the 21st century, it’s our collective concern about screen time and the effect it’s having on our kids. In fact, the top parenting concern today is the overuse of technology. Inevitably, the subject comes up while we’re talking with friends over dinner, at a school [...]

What’s the Right Amount of Screen Time?

Why ‘Parenting Technology’ is So Hard

What to Expect: The Major Inflection Points

Social Media: Our Teens’ Favorite Platforms

Social Media: The Major Concerns

How Social Media Is Changing Teen Culture

Social Media at a High Level

Social Media at a High Level Dear Friends, We set out to get to the bottom of social media and what we need to know about it for our kids. With so many provocative headlines warning parents about the dangers of social media alongside others extolling its benefits, it’s no wonder we have whiplash. Our Heard It From A Friend [...]

What’s the Right Amount of Time to Spend on Social Media?

Social Media: What Teens are Saying

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YouTube Kids. There is Still a HUGE Problem.

The Goldilocks Level of ‘Just Right’ Screen Use

The Most Important Video Game on the Planet

Video Game Addiction is Real, Rare and Poorly Understood

YouTube Still Can’t Stop Child Predators in its Comments

Teens Explain The World of Snapchat’s Addictive Streaks

Teens are Being Bullied ‘Constantly’ on Instagram

Porn is Not the Worst Thing on Musical.ly

Is Screen Time Bad for Kids–researchers find the positive sweet spot

We Need to Talk About Kids and Smartphones

Tech Companies Use Persuasive Design to Get Us Hooked

A Dark Consensus about Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley

Why Screen Time Isn’t Bad For Kids

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

The Screen Time Debate is Pitting Parents Against Each Other

Why 3 Hours Is Too Much

Let Children Get Bored Again

My Body, My Selfie

Why Are Young Adults The Loneliest Generation?

The Science of Human Connection

The Comparison Trap Psychology Today

Best Practices for Managing Social Media

Best Practices for Managing Screen Time

The Many Scenarios of Screen Time

Our Complete Guide to the Major Content Providers

An Introduction to Bark

An Introduction to OurPact

Our Complete Guide to Apple’s Parental Controls (Screen Time)

Our Complete Guide to Web Filtering and Browsers

Our Complete Guide to Apple’s Parental Controls (iOS 11)

Our Complete Guide to Mac’s Parental Controls

Our Complete Guide to Apple’s Family Sharing

Our Complete Guide to Facebook

Our Complete Guide to Youtube Kids

Our Complete Guide to Snapchat

Our Complete Guide to Instagram

Our Complete Guide to YouTube

Our Family Agreement

Our Family Agreement The first step to 'Parenting Technology'! Add New Child Select A Child Delete Close Our Family Agreement: Our Goals For You Building Healthy Digital Habits Guidelines for Device Use Parental Privileges Parental Privileges You must be logged in to edit your profile. Our Goals For YouAs your parents, we want you to: StudentTake your job as a [...]

The Social Emotional Well-Being Scale

Our TimeWise Calculator

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